Tuesday, April 8, 2008

You Can't Brag If You Don't Make Any Picks

As the title says, you can't brag if you have nothing to brag about. So here it is folks, I'm going to lay down my playoff picks plain and simple. I also encourage you all to do the same in the comments. Feel free to just do the first round for now or go all-in and try to predict the whole darned thing.

For the moment, I'm only going to give you my picks. Your Ultra Super Spectacular Playoff Preview will be up later tonight/early tomorrow. Right now I'm working on some stuff for FanHouse, but I wanted to make sure to get this post up so we can all have a little fun.

Also be sure to check out Off Wing Opinion. Over there, Eric is running his annual SC Challenge. All you have to do is pick the Cup winner and you may just get $50 donated to your favorite charity. Just make sure you do it before the games start tomorrow. My personal favorite charity is the Send Kevin to Vegas Fund.

Without any further ado, here are the picks... Analysis and insanity to come later on.

Eastern Conference, first round:

#1 Montreal gets a bye

#2 Pittsburgh over a team that may not show up

#3 Washington over #6 Philadelphia (provided Cote doesn't knock AO into another time period)

#5 NY Rangers over #4 New Jersey (yea, I'm changing from what I said on Pensblog earlier)

Eastern Conference semis

#1 Montreal over #2 NY Rangers (I think the Rangers become apathetic at this point)

#3 Washington over #2 Pittsburgh (I flipped a coin)

Eastern Conference Finals

#1 Montreal over #3 Washington (after the first round, the east is a complete crap shoot)

Western Conference, first round

#1 Detroit gets a bye basically

#2 San Jose reams the Red Mile

#6 Colorado over #3 Minnesota in what could be a blood bath

#4 Anaheim over #5 Dallas, who also may not show up

Western Conference Semis

#1 Detroit gets past #6 Colorado

#2 San Jose puts Teemu and Scott into retirement for another few months

Western Conference finals

#2 San Jose over #1 Detroit

Stanley Cup Finals

San Jose over Montreal, becoming the fourth straight Canadian team to lose in the Finals.


So there you have it. The NHL playoffs are usually like a crap shoot, so this isn't going to work out any better than my pre-season predictions. As I said, stay tuned cause there will be much more where this came from in the next 24 hours.

8 comments:

  1. Way to make me nervous, Kevin. Picking my team to win the Cup only makes me worry more.....

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  2. Well, I can't bet against JR. That's for sure.

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  3. Yeah, I'm super nervous now too. JR owes Mina a beer if the Sharks win the Cup though, so here's hoping you and NHL '08 are right.

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  4. Montreal
    Boston

    Pittsburgh
    Ottawa

    Washington
    Philadelphia

    New Jersey
    NY Rangers

    Detroit
    Nashville

    San Jose
    Calgary

    Minnesota
    Colorado

    Anaheim
    Dallas.

    I don't want to be bothered with the next round, so I'll wait until the next round actually begins.

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  5. Montreal in 5
    Pittsburgh in 6
    Washington in 6
    New York Islanders, er, Rangers in 6

    Detroit in 5
    San Jose in 6
    Minnesota in 7
    Anaheim in 5

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  6. Alls I know is that the Wild will win the various fights, like eleventy million to 4, with the 4 being when Laperriere decides to beat the piss out of Benoit Pouliot for no reason.

    Also, with all your early season Wild-Avs posts, I think this series was fated to be.

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  7. I'm with endwithstyle: I'll wait until the next round begins before I make picks. Usually I just get really really drunk on Halloween and pick them then, but all I did was get kinda drunk. All I have to go by is a dream in which I totally forgot about the Stanley Cup playoffs and had to go around asking everybody what happened, even though I don't remember much of said dream

    Montreal (if not I'll be so ticked
    Boston

    Pittsburgh
    Ottawa

    Washington
    Philadelphia

    New Jersey
    NY Rangers

    Detroit
    Nashville (someone has to, right)

    San Jose
    Calgary

    Minnesota
    Colorado

    Anaheim
    Dallas.

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  8. If and that a big "if" Montreal make it to the final at that point they will prevail. Why? Because that what they do! I may be a fan and I know the Habs would have a long road and they may fail and get eliminated before they reach the final. But if Montreal reach the final odd are they just do what they do best. Win the damn thing!

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